Rectory Farmhouse

RECTORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1081184
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1952
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1081184
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1952
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:
Tibberton
National Grid Reference:
SO 90284 56940

Details

TIBBERTON CP CHURCH LANE (west side) SO 95 NW 6/203 (18/20) Rectory Farmhouse 29.12.52 GV II*

Farmhouse. Early C17, altered mid- to late C19; restored mid-C20. Timber- framed, painted brick and rendered infill on lias limestone rubble plinth, plain tiled roofs. Main part is of lobby-entry plan having three framed bays aligned north-west/south-east, the narrow central fireplace bay is surmounted by a group of four diagonal ridge stacks; service cross-wing of two framed bays at south-east end. Two tall storeys, attic and cellar. Framing: main part is close-studded on ground floor with high-level mid-rail and mainly four square panels from first-floor level to wall-plate; long straight braces in lower corners; north-west gable end has a collar and tie- beam truss with two collars, two struts survive to lower collar (the rest are replaced by a window); three struts to the upper collar and a V-strut in the apex; cross-wing has five rows of panels from sill to wall-plate and collar and tie-beam trusses with two struts to collar and V-strut in apex. North-east front elevation: regular fenestration of one window per bay on both floors; ground floor of main part has 9-light wood-mullioned C20 oriels; first floor has original oriels on central console with 3-light C19 casements and a central 2-light wood-mullioned C20 oriel; C20 central door; cross-wing has plank weatherings at main floor levels and a ground- and first-floor window similar to those in the main part; there is also a C20 oriel on the attic storey. Attic light in south-east gable end. Interior: the main part is noted as having retained its central back-to-back fireplaces. The front elevation is reported as having had a two-storey porch wing originally. (VCH 3 (ii), p 537; BoE, p 280).

Listing NGR: SO9028456940

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Legacy System number:
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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 537
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 280

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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